House of Commons - Progress on Carbon Budgets - Environmental Audit Committee

Environmental Audit Committee - Fifth Report
Progress on Carbon Budgets

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 11 September 2013.

Contents

Developments in climate change science

Feedback effects

Climate sensitivity

European and international efforts

Review of the fourth carbon budget

Widening the budgets

Emissions from international aviation and shipping

Emissions embedded in imports

3 Management of carbon budgets

Progress to date

The need for new policies to meet the carbon budgets

Domestic energy efficiency

Electricity market reform

Fluorinated gases

The Government's management of carbon budgets

Role of local authorities

List of printed written evidence

List of additional written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and written evidence

Thursday 16 May 2013: Professor James Hansen, Columbia University, and Professor Mark Jaccard, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.

Wednesday 12 June 2013: Aubrey Meyer, Global Commons Institute; Professor Andrew Shepherd, University of Leeds, and Professor Myles Allen, University of Oxford; Professor Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist, Met Office, and Dr Jason Lowe, Head of Knowledge Integration and Mitigation Advice, Met Office.

Wednesday 3 July 2013: David Kennedy, Chief Executive, Committee on Climate Change.

Wednesday 10 July 2013: Rt Hon Gregory Barker MP, Minister of State for Climate Change, Department of Energy and Climate Change, Ravi Gurumurthy, Director of Strategy, Department of Energy and Climate Change, and Ben Golding, Deputy Director of Strategy, Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Written evidence

Additional written evidence